Fifty-five Spokanites learned today that the process of making flour from wheat is a lot different from the process used when father or grandfather took wheat down to the community miller to grind. The 55 men and women, with women predominating,...

This has been a dull week. There is considerable illness among members. The location of authority in the house is still a matter for debate. In the senate the matter of senate consent to the governor's appointment of heads of state departments has...

Lateral sewers ordered installed yesterday afternoon by the city council with the aid of WPA labor were Twenty-third from 500 feet east of Bernard to Browne, $1980, and Broad between Cincinnati and Nevada, $1063. Action was deferred until July 19...

Washington, June 28. - (AP) - The federal power commission disclosed today domestic power rate reductions in two Pacific Northwest cities - Spokane and Seattle - during 1935, while charges remained the same in Tacoma, Portland and Salt Lake City.

Washington State officials and congressmen appealed to the house public lands committee today to approve legislation which would give their state 150,000 acres of rich forest land to satisfy a deficiency in a former grant.

Indian unit at Billings is enlarged. - Third of country's reservations come under new setup. - Indian bureau units having headquarters in Billings will have jurisdiction over more than a third of the Indian area in the United States under...

Johnston heads progress group / by Associated Press. - The state progress commission elected Eric A. Johnston, Spokane, as chairman today and took its first step in carrying out the legislative edict to sell Washington state as a land of...

U. S. Bureau inefficiency is charged. - Wheeler says waste is like in fall's time, urges senate to act. - Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana told the senate today there is "as much waste, extravagance and inefficiency" in the present Indian...

Johnston chief. - The state progress commission, with Erick A. Johnston, Spokane, as chairman, will meet at Olympia. July 12 to select a secretary and make plans for spending $250,000 to advertise Washington.

Coulee given appropriation of $13,000,000. - $1,500,000 also included for Roza project, according to word from Schwellenbach. - Thirteen million dollars for the Grand Coulee dam project and a million and a half dollars for the Rosa project were...

2600 to decide labor contest. - Three labor groups are claiming big memberships in their drives for the right to be selected as the bargaining agency at the dam site under the Wagner act. Fifty-one per cent of dam site workmen, or about 2600, must...